Atal Rankings ARIIA 2020 Announced, IIT Madras Best Institute, KIIT Best Private University

The Vice-President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu, on August 18 announced the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements, or ARIIA 2020. In Atal Ranking 2020, Indian Institute of Madras, or IIT Madras, again topped the rankings of best centrally funded institutions. In the category of private institutions, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, or KIIT, Odisha has emerged as winners.

For the first time, ARIIA 2020 rankings had a special prize category for women-only higher educational institutions.

The results of ARIIA rankings 2020 have been evaluated based on seven parameters -- budget and funding support, infrastructure and facilities, awareness, promotions, and support for idea generation and innovation, promotion and support for entrepreneurship development, innovative learning methods and courses, intellectual property generation, technology transfer and commercialization and innovation in the governance of the institution.

ARIIA 2020: Category-Wise Atal Ranking 2020

Centrally Funded Institutions:

1. IIT Madras

2. IIT Bombay

3. IIT Delhi

4. IISc Bangalore

5. IIT Kharagpur

6. IIT Kanpur

7. IIT Mandi

8. NIT Calicut

9. IIT Roorkee

10. University of Hyderabad

Women (only higher educational institutions):

1. Avinashilingam Institute For Home Science And Higher Education For Women

2. Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women

Private Institutions:

1. S R Engineering College, Telangana

2. G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur

3. Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology

4. NITTE Meenakshi Institute of Technology

5. CMR College of Engineering and Technology

Private/Deemed Universities:

1. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Odisha

2. SRM Institute of Science and Technology

3. Vellore Institute of Technology

4. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

5. Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology

State-Funded Autonomous Institutions:

1. College of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra

2. PES College of Engineering, Karnataka

3. Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu

4. Shri Guruji Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Maharashtra

5. PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Tamil Nadu

6. Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Maharashtra

State-Funded Universities:

1. Institute of Chemical Technology, Maharashtra

2. Punjab University

3. Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University

4. Anand Agricultural University

5. Periyar University

6. Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

7. Graduate School of Engineering and Technology, Gujarat Technological University

ARIIA is an initiative by the Ministry of Education (MoE) which is implemented by AICTE and Ministry's Innovation Cell, Government of India.

The objective or ARIIA 2020 is to rank higher education institutions and universities in India as per Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Startup, and Development amongst faculty and students.